Author: Ilanawrites

Ilana Jacqueline Named as Reuters Pharma Awards Finalist

Ilana Jacqueline Named as Reuters Pharma Awards Finalist

  Ilana Jacqueline was named as one of Reuters Pharma Awards Patient Champion Awards 2021 finalists. The winner of this award will be a person or small group which identifies as a patient (or patient group), and who has provided other patients or people with 

2020 Guide to Patient Culture on Social Media (WEGO Health)

2020 Guide to Patient Culture on Social Media (WEGO Health)

Ilana Jacqueline | Patient culture will bloom wherever it’s planted. It started on message boards and trickled into Facebook Groups, it spread across twitter and broke through your Instagram feed, it wove it’s way through Reddit threads and has even erupted across TikTok. Every platform has 

The Patient Perspective: Patient Influencers and The Impact of Authenticity

The Patient Perspective: Patient Influencers and The Impact of Authenticity

by Ilana Jacqueline for WEGO Health. As any patient will tell you, there’s nothing like out of touch, unsolicited medical advice from companies to get them to slam the door in your face. When you’re sick and you’re trying to decide how to manage it 

The Queen of Quarantine: Social Distancing Before it Was Trendy

The Queen of Quarantine: Social Distancing Before it Was Trendy

This month an article came out in IG Living Magazine that I’d written months prior to COVID-19 coming on the scene. It was about my experiences as a Primary Immune Deficiency Disease Patient (A rare disease that increases my susceptibility to infection) and how I 

Real Patient Takes on ABC’s “The Good Doctor” Immune Deficiency Episode

Real Patient Takes on ABC’s “The Good Doctor” Immune Deficiency Episode

Are you subscribed to my YouTube Channel? On a recent episode of The Good Doctor, the disease “Severe Combined Immune Deficiency” (AKA: Boy in the Bubble Disease) was grossly misrepresented. I’m a primary immune deficiency patient and professional patient advocate. Here’s some facts about what 

Explore Boca Raton With Me! New Video

Explore Boca Raton With Me! New Video

Are you subscribed to my YouTube Channel? Spend the weekend with me as I do date night with my husband at Rex Baron, a new post-apocalyptic eatery in central Boca, get ready for a surprise party, show you my Bath and Body Works haul from 

Ilana Jacqueline Interview with Uninvisible Podcast

Ilana Jacqueline Interview with Uninvisible Podcast

Lauren Freedman of the Uninvisible Podcast interviewed Ilana Jacqueline  about her work in patient advocacy, how her disease has impacted her as a professional, and a professional and what’s next for the best-selling author. Uninvisible is a podcast about invisible conditions and chronic invisible illness, 

South Florida Health Advocacy Summit Fundraiser

South Florida Health Advocacy Summit Fundraiser

Attention Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach and surrounding areas: local patient advocate, Ilana Jacqueline, is looking for help with an upcoming fundraiser for a youth summit as part of The Health Advocacy Summit Organization. ABOUT The Health Advocacy Summit is a 501c-3 non-profit organization 

Expanding Uses of IVIG as Featured in IG Living Magazine

Expanding Uses of IVIG as Featured in IG Living Magazine

Below is an article written by Ilana Jacqueline featured in an issue of IG Living Magazine. (Sources can be seen at the full link at the bottom of this post.) Researchers are taking a closer look at intravenous immune globulin for its potential to stop 

The Great Wait: Coping with Boredom During Recovery

The Great Wait: Coping with Boredom During Recovery

by Ilana Jacqueline (As originally published IG Living Magazine for Ilana’s column regular column) Getting back to your life after a flare is a hardship in and of itself. Actually waiting to get to the point where you can begin the steps of recovering from